mishtryoshka.bsky.social
Writer (Bread & Circuits in Asimov's), game dev (Mission: It's Complicated on Steam or itch.io, Legacy Trucker at https://www.darlingrecordings.com/cross-country-legacy). Bipolar fibromyalgia-butt. Amateur nouns: she/they
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I sent an email!
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friend request sent!
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👋👋👋 yeah it only took two decades of writing, re-writing, therapy, medication, and gender fuckery lol. but we got there eventually 💪 can't wait to read your story!
you got a discord or something? I'm not on here much rn, bc of ~aLl thE DoOm alL ThE tIMe~ 🙃
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Oh dang is it out?! I had no idea! I'm really glad you liked it!!
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I had a very queer focused game get a negative review saying it sounded like tumblr. And, well, they weren't wrong haha :D At least it was set modern day, writing around gender in fantasy can be tough, esp. if the register of the voices doesn't match :/ Ah well. At least we got something!
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Ahh yeah the open world was the worst part of Inq. I completely forgive it bc of the wonderful story and writing.
Everyone's so love/hate on VG's dialog 🤔 I guess I'll see! Hard to sort out the anti-woke junk from actual issues with the writing. Not doubting progressive writing can be done badly 🤷♀️
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Did VG end up in the same tier as Inquisition for similar reasons? I bought but haven’t played VG yet but I adore inquisition, so maybe that’s a good sign for how it’ll hit for me :D (DA 2 and Inquisition are S for me.)
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I wish I still felt this excited by stuff! We have a friend who still goes full fangirl over things in her almost-40s and it’s so great and just the best vibe to be around :D
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:D
It's called Mission: It's Complicated! It's free (totally free, no mt) on Steam [https://store.steampowered.com/app/1041210/Mission_Its_Complicated/] or Itch [https://schellgames.itch.io/mission-its-complicated]
If you do end up playing it lemme know what you think!
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There was a blog post by someone who’d been making games in rust that went back to godot and felt it was difficult prototyping in it so that turned me off some too 🤔
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I’m sure I’ll try it eventually. I don’t love code-only engines so much though, having done a lot of that for html5 games. I like being able to see my ui at least, and run the animations, etc. But maybe it’s worth it. I tried Defold last two days so maybe I’ll try Bevy.
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Ahh that makes a lot of sense. I'll keep it in mind if I need something like this! I don't know any rust, though, so that's intimidating. (Interesting, but I only have so much time between writing and making games and being sad ehehehe.)
Have you tried godot's rust extension vs. Bevy?
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Why simulation games specifically?
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This feels like the kind of thing you only see in a huge studio with someone whose whole job is the aiming system, or in a solo dev project where you can spend time however you want and no one to stop you :D
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Great art, reminds me of Superbrothers from early iOS days!
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Not me but your game looks cool af. Had me at time moves when you do.
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Oooh neat, so is it 8-directional?
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How does changing direction work — can you still slide your thumb/finger to the button, or do you need to life and press?
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Cozy game with mystery teleport slime sounds so good
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English as much random slang as Russian has extra names 👌 your English is much better than my Russian, though.
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It looks dope, as in good.
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This game fulfills a clear innate human need to 1) touch slime and 2) be sent away, far away, anywhere but here.
also it looks cute af
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If the genre has “rogue” in it you don’t tutorials. Just a dungeon, a two page list of keyboard commands (some must be VERY esoteric, like “wipe face”), and permadeath 💪💀 if the user needs help they can read a 40pg .txt file from usenet (you’ll need to go back in time and put this on usenet)
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Yesss portrait orientation mobile games are the best!!! Also super cute art.
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Dope
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You could watch it, but ironically? Or say you’ll watch it but stay on your phone the whole time and then look up and say “who just won? What was that for?”
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The responses to this were wonderful good job 🫡
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Ooooh I see!! I misunderstood haha
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Here is a very good video about him (and other things) m.youtube.com/watch?v=aY98...
(Good if you like hearing about academia drama from the outside, which I do)
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I get this joke!! Thanks @acollierastro.bsky.social
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Love all of them but the dragon is incredible. (Also thanks for the alt text helped me understand it!!)
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Fluffy!
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These are the best little guys!!!!
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Womp womp :( I got off cause of this, it’s pretty obnoxious lol. (Yet I also stayed up super late, that did not help.)
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Mmmm based on all that sleep it sounds like you have a snorefectionism problem ehehehe (is it meds? My meds made me so damn sleepy, all the time)
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I feeeel crazy but everything looks the same? Maybe just darker? I have a different soup 🍜
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I still remember that feeling of “what if this is the one that makes it big!!” Fun feeling. Only some of it was mania haha
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Actual episodes so much more boring than depicted in media (while being exactly as awful to experience ehehehe) (except for the manic episodes maybe those can be ok)
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Why is the issue always this instead of progresssive purity culture :/ that’s the identity politics that hurt us, this need to obsess about how much better we are bc of our stated politics and how bad others are in comparisson
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Looks cool :O my bad meds experiences never look this aesthetic haha
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Love that chonky sprite work!!
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A++ dope faces.
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Oh god I feel this I stopped being able to work in my writing in Oct and haven’t gone back since. I can manic code some on my non-serious game project a little but that’s it. Gotta pick the short story back up tho.
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“Because I’m an empath” hahaha
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omg is this the “Latin us made up” creator? Is she still around???
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Try following an ad for a band, go to their Spotify from the ad. I get nothing but music now (and some of it is great!)
Book ads are also good to follow, lots and lots of indie book ads on insta that will fill your feed.